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Advice for the best relationship from a Pitt psychologist

This Valentine’s Day, relationship expert Amanda Forest shares her research on how to be a supportive partner.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Pitt's new lacrosse team kicks off its inaugural season Feb. 11

Head coach Emily Boissonneault also debuts in the match. Here's how you can watch.

  • University News
  • Athletics
Tim Stevens standing outside wearing black coat during winter

Advice for activists from a former Pittsburgh NAACP president and Pitt alumnus

Tim Stevens has been advocating for Black people’s civil rights for 50 years.

  • Community Impact
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Our City/Our Campus
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Pitt professor named to the National Academy of Engineers

Anna Balazs is the first Swanson School faculty member to also have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

  • Faculty
  • Swanson School of Engineering
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Amber Johnson earns 2022 Escalator Award for Research

Johnson plans to explore neighborhood-level determinants of health for patients with hypertension.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Faculty
  • School of Medicine
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4 new hydroponic micro-farms are feeding Pitt students

Over winter recess, Pitt became home to the largest installation of micro-farming units on any campus in the country.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Our City/Our Campus
Pregnant woman in yellow dress sitting in a kitchen using a blood pressure monitor.

Pitt and UPMC researchers improve heart-disease monitoring after pregnancy

Their at-home system for tracking blood pressure and providing ongoing care recently won a federal award.

  • Health and Wellness
  • School of Medicine
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The University of Pittsburgh adds Juneteenth as an observed holiday

Beginning this academic year, all campuses will close in observation of Juneteenth, often referred to as Black Independence Day.

  • University News
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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Street Medicine at Pitt serves Pittsburghers without homes — and educates future medical professionals

On a cold night in January, students headed downtown to provide health care, cold weather supplies and a listening ear.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Community Impact
  • Our City/Our Campus
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Apply for $50,000 from the Virginia Kaufman Pain Research Challenge

The funding program aims to advance ideas and solutions addressing problems in the area of pain.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Technology & Science

Limited registration is open for the Racial Equity Consciousness Institute’s spring cohort

The series creates a framework for fostering anti-racist practices and creating racial equity.

  • University News
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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This startup is helping the insurance industry understand autonomous vehicles

Self-driving cars need to be insured if they’re going to become part of our daily lives. Koop Technologies, formed by international students at Pitt-Bradford, is collecting the data to make it happen

  • Technology & Science
  • Alumni
  • Pitt-Bradford
Michael Hatridge with two students in lab

Pitt physicists built their very own quantum computer

While impressive for its size alone, the Lego-like computer’s real innovation is in how its components are connected.

  • Technology & Science
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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See the University Art Gallery’s longest-running Black women’s exhibit

Quilts, photos, paintings and other artworks from 22 artists form the Women of Visions exhibit, which is on display through Feb. 25.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Submit proposals for the 2022 Innovation in Education Award

Applications are due Feb. 18.

  • Teaching & Learning
  • Faculty
Pittsburgh Campus Aerial View

4 Pitt innovation teams receive Chancellor’s Gap Fund commercialization grants

The funds will accelerate their path from the lab to the market.

  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
  • Swanson School of Engineering
De’Jovia Davis wearing blue and gold uniform

Pitt’s first Black female assistant drum major marches with passion and persistence

De’Jovia Davis may have been raised in the South, but she discovered her home at Pitt Band.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Review the University’s closure and class cancellation policy ahead of Winter Storm Landon

The University-wide Closure and Class Cancellation Policy governs Pitt’s operations in circumstances including severe weather.

  • University News
  • Our City/Our Campus
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School of Nursing professor praised by top doctors leading the fight against COVID-19

John Gallagher received special recognition from Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci for contributions to the National Institute of Health COVID-19 Guidelines Panel.

  • Community Impact
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Nursing